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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
Found 702 files - displaying 251 to 300 sorted by Date Added Descending
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251 |
Article |
Rectory Cottages Great Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_RCT |
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Title |
Rectory Cottages Great Wigborough |
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Abstract |
The two cottages known as Rectory Cottages, situated on top of Wigborough hill, just opposite the church and the Rectory were demolished in approximately 1967.
Rectory Cottages, Great Wigborough
The cottages ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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252 |
Article |
Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye |
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ID |
LDH_WW1_001 |
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Title |
Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye |
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Abstract |
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye
On Sunday afternoon, October 28, the Bishop of Colchester, (Dr Whitcombe) unveiled and dedicated a War Cross which the people of Layer de la Haye have ... |
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28 October 1917
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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253 |
Article |
Salcott Wigborough Chantry |
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ID |
SAL_CTY |
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Title |
Salcott Wigborough Chantry |
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Abstract |
What we now generally know as Salcott was formerly a hamlet of Great Wigborough, and, separated by a creek, a chapel-of-ease was built at Salcott Wigborough for the people there, but served by the rector of Great Wigborough Tom Millatt The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin: ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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254 |
Article |
Unmade Roads |
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ID |
ML2020_010_073 |
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Title |
Unmade Roads |
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Abstract |
In August 1939 I moved with my family from the Barfield Road council house where I was born, to a new bungalow in Suffolk Avenue. It was a grass track which got very muddy in winter. There were 15 homes in the avenue ( interestingly the same number as in Empress Avenue which was much longer). ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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255 |
Article |
Yates Family Wedding at Great Wigborough - Mary Hopkyn's Diary |
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ID |
GWG_YTS_001 |
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Title |
Yates Family Wedding at Great Wigborough - Mary Hopkyn's Diary |
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Abstract |
The following is the diary of a visit to Great Wigborough for the wedding of Joan Yates, daughter of the Rector Revd. Frederick Yates. It was sent by Ivor Hopkyns, son of Joan and John Yates.
DIARY OF THE WEDDING OF JOAN YATES AND JOHN HOPKYNS
20th November, 1941
By Mary Dean Hopkyns ... |
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Mersea Museum
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256 |
Article |
The Great Plague of Colchester and London |
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ID |
PH01_PLG |
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Title |
The Great Plague of Colchester and London |
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Abstract |
Imagine an epidemic so virulent that shops, theatres and pubs closed, trade and travel ceased, families isolated if a family member was ill and food was delivered to the door by the community. Imagine special arrangements being made to bury the dead with no funerals allowed and the wealthy fleeing ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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257 |
Article |
Great Wigborough Congregational Chapel |
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ID |
GWG_CGC |
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Title |
Great Wigborough Congregational Chapel |
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Abstract |
According to White's Trade Directory of 1848 in its entry for the village of Great Wigborough, there was an independent chapel sited by the Maldon Road, Great Wigborough. The entry reads
Adjoining the Maldon Road is an Independent Chapel, belonging to a Congregation formed in 1720.
... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
September 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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258 |
Article |
The Rectors of St Stephens, Great Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_REC |
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Title |
The Rectors of St Stephens, Great Wigborough |
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Abstract |
In writing the biographical details that follow I am following in the footsteps of local historian, the late Tom Millatt who was responsible for the beautiful artwork above which hangs on the walls of St Stephens. It is Tom's ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
September 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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259 |
Article |
Salcott and Virley by George Biddell 1933 |
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ID |
SAL_BDL |
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Title |
Salcott and Virley by George Biddell 1933 |
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Abstract |
Virley is a little place, and has never been of much importance in the land, nevertheless its history can be traced back for about 1,000 years.
In the reign of Edward, the Confessor (AD 1045-66) a large and thriving village stood at the head of the creek, near the spot where a
bridge now ... |
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Author |
George Biddell |
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Published |
30 December 1933
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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260 |
Article |
Salcott Coffin-Slab |
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ID |
SAL_CFN |
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Title |
Salcott Coffin-Slab |
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Abstract |
According to the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments 1922, in the churchyard of St Mary's Salcott, west of the
church tower was sited a coffin-slab, coped with double hollow-chamfered edge, cross with foliated ends on stepped
calvery, 13th century. Another broken slab with hollow ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
September 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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261 |
Article |
75th Anniversary of end of WW2 - Layer de la Haye |
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ID |
TLR_WW2 |
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Title |
75th Anniversary of end of WW2 - Layer de la Haye |
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Abstract |
Layer de la Haye War Memorial
75th Anniversary Tribute for end of World War 2
2nd September 2020
After the success of the Poppy display to commemorate the centennial for the end of WW1 in 2018, we felt it was ... |
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Author |
Anne Taylor |
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Published |
2 September 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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262 |
Article |
The Story of Layer de la Haye since Saxon Times |
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ID |
EC64_05_316 |
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Title |
The Story of Layer de la Haye since Saxon Times |
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Abstract |
It was called "Legra" in the Domesday Book
By the Rev. James Allen (Vicar of Layer de la Haye)
Article from Essex Countryside Magazine May 1964
The name Layer de la Haye is one of ... |
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Author |
Rev. James Allen |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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263 |
Article |
Stories of Old Salcott - Mr Francis |
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ID |
SVN_1992_005 |
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Title |
Stories of Old Salcott - Mr Francis |
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Abstract |
Salcott-Virley Village News
May 1992
Written by Tom Parmenter.
Inspirational Poem
To have the steadfast knowledge
That we never walk alone
And to rest in the assurance
That our every need is known
Will help dispel our worries
Our anxieties and care
For fear and doubt ... |
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Author |
Tom Parmenter |
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Published |
May 1992
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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264 |
Article |
Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock M.A. |
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ID |
EAS_1936_P155 |
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Title |
Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock M.A. |
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Abstract |
IN MEMORIAM.
THE REV. LLEWELLYN CHRISTOPHER WATSON BULLOCK, B.A.
Obituary from Essex Archaeological Society
The death of the Rev. Ll. C. Watson Bullock on 10 February, 1936, deprived the Society of a ... |
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Keywords |
revd, rev |
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Published |
1936
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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265 |
Article |
"Your Essex" at Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Salcot and Virley |
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ID |
TBM_SAL_101 |
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Title |
"Your Essex" at Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Salcot and Virley |
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Abstract |
Salcott always fascinated me. It was the first country place I ever stayed in. I was a schoolboy at the time, and I remember journeying there in a four-wheeler, and returning in a pony cart. That is a good many years ago. ... |
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Author |
C.R. Jefferies |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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266 |
Article |
Peldon, John Ball and The Peasants' Revolt |
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ID |
PH01_PRV |
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Title |
Peldon, John Ball and The Peasants' Revolt |
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Abstract |
If, as it would appear, John Ball, the visionary social reformer, who first raised the standard of revolt against injustice and tyranny, was born in Peldon, may not Peldon have contributed in the fourteenth century, the greatest of all Essex sons?
So asks Kay Gilmour ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
August 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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267 |
Article |
Salcot Church c1830 by J.C. Atkinson |
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ID |
ERV_1894_275 |
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Title |
Salcot Church c1830 by J.C. Atkinson |
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Abstract |
SALCOT CHURCH
From Essex Review Vol 3, Page 275 (1894)
By: J.C. Atkinson, Danby Parsonage, Castleton.
My reminiscences of Salcott and Virley Churches of sixty-five to seventy years ago (c1830) are somewhat peculiar. My father was frequently officiating in them, one or both, and I was ... |
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Keywords |
1830 |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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268 |
Article |
Burial in Wool |
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ID |
PH01_BWL |
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Title |
Burial in Wool |
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Abstract |
Burial in Wool
In burial registers from 1666 up to 1814 a note is often written alongside entries
saying affidavit or An affidavit that he was buried in woolen.
This refers to the oath that had to be sworn by the relatives of the deceased to show compliance with the Acts of ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
August 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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269 |
Article |
The Bean Family of Peldon Hall |
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ID |
PH01_FBN |
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Title |
The Bean Family of Peldon Hall |
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Abstract |
Some time around 1827, Samuel Edwin Bean, farmer, his wife Frances and their children moved to Peldon Hall from New Hall, Little Wigborough; the family was to remain in Peldon for approximately the next sixty years.
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Keywords |
copt hall |
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Published |
August 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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270 |
Article |
Ron Green - A Mersea Builder |
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ID |
ML2020_009_074 |
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Title |
Ron Green - A Mersea Builder |
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Abstract |
I left West Mersea Council School on April 1946 aged 14. I was to do a bricklayer apprenticeship but was unable to start officially until I was 15, so for the first year I was a labourer. However, I was laying bricks on my very first day at work. I was with my father Les and we were working for ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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271 |
Article |
Peldon and the National Agricultural Labourers' Union |
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ID |
PH01_AGU |
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Title |
Peldon and the National Agricultural Labourers' Union |
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Abstract |
Fraternise, centralise! With brotherly feeling with a united front, with every district welded into a great whole, with a common fund to which all shall pay, and on which all shall have right to draw, the time will not be distant when every agricultural labourer shall have, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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272 |
Article |
Church Briefs - Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_CBR |
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Title |
Church Briefs - Wigborough |
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Abstract |
CHURCH BRIEFS
 A transcription in P.A.F. Stephenson's book "The Parish Registers of Great and Little Wigborough" 1905
In the register for St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough, is bound a mutilated ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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273 |
Article |
Great Wigborough Church Royal Commission on Historical Monuments report 1922 |
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ID |
GWG_CHC_201 |
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Title |
Great Wigborough Church Royal Commission on Historical Monuments report 1922 |
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Abstract |
GREAT WIGBOROUGH
From the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (1922)
Typed by T.B. Millatt, source document not known.
Transcribed August 2020 by Anne Taylor
Great Wigborough is a parish 7 miles south of Colchester.
Parish Church of St. Stephen stands towards the North end ... |
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Author |
1922 |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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274 |
Article |
The Bells of St Stephens, Great Wigborough |
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ID |
PH01_BLS |
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Title |
The Bells of St Stephens, Great Wigborough |
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Abstract |
The Bells of St Stephens, Great Wigborough
St Stephens has two bells although only one is now rung. The older bell was made by itinerant bell founder John Danyell who was founding bells between 1450 and 1470. Medieval bell-founders did not confine themselves to bell-making as their only ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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275 |
Article |
The Reformation and the Wigborough Martyrs |
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ID |
GWG_MTR |
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Title |
The Reformation and the Wigborough Martyrs |
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Abstract |
The Reformation and the Great Wigborough Martyrs
At a time of a Europe-wide move to break away from the Roman Catholic Church, in 1534, Henry VIII, declared himself supreme head of the Church of England . This move, triggered by his wish to divorce Catherine of Aragon was also a means by which ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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276 |
Article |
Wigborough Carriers and Buses |
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ID |
WIG_BUS |
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Title |
Wigborough Carriers and Buses |
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Abstract |
During the 19th century and well into the 20th century, the carrier provided transport for most people. Farmers and better-off people would have a horse and cart - and everyone would walk a lot more.
The trade directories such as Pigot's, White's and Kelly's list carriers serving Wigborough, and ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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277 |
Article |
The Earthquake of 1884 - Great and Little Wigborough |
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ID |
WIG_WEQ |
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Title |
The Earthquake of 1884 - Great and Little Wigborough |
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Abstract |
The Earthquake of 1884 - Great and Little Wigborough
22 April 1884 An earthquake at 9.20am, knocking down a chimney of the house which nearly came through the roof, frightening everybody very much and ringing all the bells. The damage done all the way to Wigboro', Peldon, Mersea, Abberton, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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278 |
Article |
Wigborough War Memorial |
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ID |
GWG_WMM |
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Title |
Wigborough War Memorial |
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Abstract |
The War Memorial in St. Stephen's Parish Church, Great Wigborough.
The memorial is alabaster and is in the closed north doorway.
To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of the soldiers of this Parish who fell in the Great War 1914-1918.
Their Name Liveth for Ever More.
There are nine ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Keywords |
ww1 ww2 |
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Published |
July 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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279 |
Article |
Frederick Theobald of Great Wigborough died 26 August 1914 |
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ID |
IYS_001 |
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Title |
Frederick Theobald of Great Wigborough died 26 August 1914 |
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Abstract |
THEOBALD, FREDERICK GEORGE
Rank: Captain
Regiment: Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st Bn.
Age 38
Date of death 26 August 1914
Service No.
... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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280 |
Article |
Alexander Charles Ponder of Great Wigborough died 13 October 1915 |
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ID |
IYS_099 |
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Title |
Alexander Charles Ponder of Great Wigborough died 13 October 1915 |
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Abstract |
PONDER, ALEXANDER CHARLES
Rank: Lance Corporal
Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment, 1/6th Battalion, TF 137th Brigade, 46th Division.
Age 36
Date of death 13 October 1915
Service No. 3728
Alexander Charles ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Keywords |
garr |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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281 |
Article |
Frederick James Oxenham of Great Wigborough died 23 May 1917 |
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ID |
IYS_153 |
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Title |
Frederick James Oxenham of Great Wigborough died 23 May 1917 |
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Abstract |
OXENHAM, Frederick James
Rank: Rifleman
Regiment: London Regiment (City of London Rifles) : 6th Battalion.
Age 22
Date of death 23 May 1917
Service No. 322328
Frederick was born in Kings Norton, ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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282 |
Article |
Brierley Hall Estate |
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ID |
ML2020_008_022 |
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Title |
Brierley Hall Estate |
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Abstract |
With the present planning issues going on for West Mersea at the moment. it is interesting to look back to the Brierley Hall Estate as laid out by architect E. Hollyer Evans of The Strand, London W.C. in 1909. From Seaview Avenue to a line one field to the East of Cross Lane there are some 480 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green / Tony Millatt |
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Published |
August 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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283 |
Article |
Bertram Charles Juniper of Great Wigborough died 15 Sept 1915 |
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ID |
IYS_092 |
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Title |
Bertram Charles Juniper of Great Wigborough died 15 Sept 1915 |
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Abstract |
JUNIPER, BERTRAM CHARLES
Rank: Private
Regiment: Essex Regiment in the 2nd Battalion. 12th Brigade, 4th Division.
Age 22
Date of death 15 September 1915
Service No. 10776
Bertram Charles Juniper was the adopted ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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284 |
Article |
Frederick Hutley of Great Wigborough died 30 June 1916 |
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ID |
IYS_105 |
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Title |
Frederick Hutley of Great Wigborough died 30 June 1916 |
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Abstract |
HUTLEY, FREDERICK
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment, 12th Battalion. 116th Brigade, 39th Division.
Age 34
Date of death 30 June 1916
Service No. SD/1972
Frederick was born 1881, son of Charles and ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Keywords |
Fred, brickhouse |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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285 |
Article |
Alfred Charles Francis died 3 June 1917 |
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ID |
IYS_154 |
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Title |
Alfred Charles Francis died 3 June 1917 |
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Abstract |
FRANCIS, ALFRED CHARLES
Rank: Serjeant
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery: "D" Battery. 58th Brigade
Age 23
Date of death 3 June 1917
Service No. 68105
Alfred was the son of Alfred and Eliza Francis. Alfred ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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286 |
Article |
Charles Godfrey Bonner died 27 August 1918 |
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ID |
IYS_194 |
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Title |
Charles Godfrey Bonner died 27 August 1918 |
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Abstract |
BONNER, CHARLES GODFREY
Rank: Private
Regiment: Coldstream Guards 2nd Battalion. 1st Guards Brigade, Guards Division
Age 34
Date of death 27 August 1918
Service No. 21972
Charles Godfrey Bonner was born ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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287 |
Article |
Edward Ponder of Great Wigborough |
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ID |
PH01_EPR |
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Title |
Edward Ponder of Great Wigborough |
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Abstract |
Edward Ponder of Great Wigborough
Trawling through the Peldon and Wigborough Parish Magazines I came across three articles written by a Wigborough man, Edward Ponder, who I believe was born around 1916 although other biographical information is needed.
The first article is about working ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
July 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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288 |
Article |
William Potter Bond died 14 May 1915 |
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ID |
IYS_078 |
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Title |
William Potter Bond died 14 May 1915 |
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Abstract |
BOND, WILLIAM CHARLES POTTER (also known as William Edward Bond)
Rank: Private
Regiment: Essex Regiment 2nd Battalion,12th Brigade, 4th Division.
Age 18
Date of death 14 May 1915
Service No. 3/1960
William had ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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289 |
Article |
Peldon People: Harry and Angelina Smith |
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ID |
PH01_HWS |
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Title |
Peldon People: Harry and Angelina Smith |
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Abstract |
Peldon People: Harry and Angelina Smith
Henry William Smith was born in Peldon in 1853 and during his working life he was a horseman on a farm and farm labourer. He married Angelina Cousins (born 1857) in 1875.
In 1935 they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary and in honour of the ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
July 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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290 |
Article |
The Whiting Family of Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_AGW |
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Title |
The Whiting Family of Peldon |
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Abstract |
THE WHITING FAMILY OF PELDON
The picture above is taken outside the front (North West corner) of Games Farmhouse, Lower Road, Peldon, it was passed on by Tony Baldwin whose grandmother, Anna Whiting, is on the left of the ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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291 |
Article |
Mersea Island Horticultural Society |
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ID |
DIS2019_MIHS |
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Title |
Mersea Island Horticultural Society |
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Abstract |
In 2019, the Museum put on a display to celebrate 100 years of Mersea Island Horticultural Society summer shows.
MIHS was founded in 1876 and over the years, several shows have been missed because of wars and even pandemics, so we are now long past the centenary of the society.
The start of ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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292 |
Article |
A History of Pete Hall - Part 2 |
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ID |
PH01_PTZ |
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Title |
A History of Pete Hall - Part 2 |
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Abstract |
Pete Hall Peldon Part 2
[ ... |
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Author |
Simon Eagle |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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293 |
Article |
A History of Pete Hall Part 1 |
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ID |
PH01_PTY |
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Title |
A History of Pete Hall Part 1 |
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Abstract |
Pete Hall
Peldon
1046 - 1987
Part 1
Pete Hall (otherwise known as Peet or Peete Hall) Colchester Road, Peldon, Essex.
It remains uncertain as to when Pete Hall became known by its present spelling ... |
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Author |
Simon Eagle |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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294 |
Article |
Essex Cheese |
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ID |
PH01_CSE |
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Title |
Essex Cheese |
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Abstract |
Essex Cheese
Fingringhoe Wick, Langenhoe Wick, Middlewick, Abbots Wick, Tollesbury Wick are all names we are familiar with in this part of Essex but what does 'Wick' actually mean?
Wicks were in fact shepherds' huts where sheep, grazing on the low-lying marshes of this coast, were milked ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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295 |
Article |
Copt Hall - draft statement of significance |
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ID |
RTC_303 |
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Title |
Copt Hall - draft statement of significance |
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Abstract |
DRAFT STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE - COPT HALL
The following article describing Copt Hall, Little Wigborough, was probably written for the National Trust, and paints a romantic picture of
the area. The author is not known. It was in the papers saved by Bernie Ratcliffe who worked on New Hall ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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296 |
Article |
The Mystery of Honor Villa and Going's Cottages |
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ID |
PH01_HVL |
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Title |
The Mystery of Honor Villa and Going's Cottages |
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Abstract |
THE MYSTERY OF HONOR VILLA and GOING's COTTAGES
In investigating the history of houses in the village of Peldon where few of them are numbered, without the help of house deeds it is often impossible to identify a house by its current name. Even in Peldon's Tudor wills it is quite common for a ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
June 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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297 |
Article |
Mersea Water |
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ID |
ML2020_007_075 |
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Title |
Mersea Water |
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Abstract |
I was born in West Mersea in February 1932 and was to drink water from the water tower for the next 33 or so years. My teeth have the brown stain under the enamel which a number of us locals (not all) have who were children during that period.
From a very detailed account published in the ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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298 |
Article |
Peldon Tug of War Team |
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ID |
PH01_PTW |
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Title |
Peldon Tug of War Team |
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Abstract |
My recollections of Peldon's contribution towards the sport of Tug-of-War by John Hawes
My first experience of competing in a Tug-of-War competition occurred at the East Mersea village Fete' during early August 1973. At that time I lived in West Mersea, so I was over the border so to speak. I ... |
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Author |
John Hawes |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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299 |
Article |
The Martins of Moor Farm |
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ID |
PH01_MTN |
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Title |
The Martins of Moor Farm |
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Abstract |
The Martins of Moor Farm
Moor Farm is the white weather-boarded farmhouse on the right of the main road travelling from Mersea to Colchester a few hundred yards
on from The Peldon Rose. It is a listed building and ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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300 |
Article |
The Parish Church of St Stephen Great Wigborough. A history |
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ID |
GWG_CHC |
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Title |
The Parish Church of St Stephen Great Wigborough. A history |
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Abstract |
The Parish Church of St Stephen, Great Wigborough.
Beautifully situated on the top of a hill at the highest point of the parish, the tower of the church is a landmark for many
miles around. The large manor (Abbots ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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